Jerry

“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“God, of your goodness, give me yourself; you are enough for me, and anything less that I could ask for would not do you full honor. And if I ask anything that is less, I shall always lack something, but in you alone I have everything'.”
― Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love

“If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.”
― Dietrich bonhoeffer , Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art